Claimed by the Mate, Volume 3

Author:Kate Douglas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Bound to the Wolf

A. C. Arthur

Prologue

“I’m. Not. Interested,” Marena said pointedly for the third time.

He wasn’t going to listen. She could tell by the way his eyes narrowed, his mouth opened slightly, and his chest heaved. He was going to come closer and touch her and that was the last thing she wanted.

She took a step back, and then another, the high heels of the black pumps she’d worn to the firm’s anniversary celebration sinking into the plush hotel carpet. Getting a room at the same hotel where the party was being held had been a mistake. Marena should have gotten into her car and driven the twelve miles back to her house, even if it was almost one in the morning. She hadn’t been drinking, so she was fine to drive. But she’d wanted to treat herself. This hotel had a spa with a great reputation, not to mention the pool and five-star restaurant. She’d planned to make a weekend of it, to take some time for herself to relax and unwind after back-to-back cases at work. After all these years Marena had finally decided to follow the advice of every girlfriend she’d ever had. She was doing something just for her pleasure.

Only tonight, she feared that wasn’t going to happen.

“I’m simply trying to help you celebrate the win on that Vale case. You’ve just made millions for the firm and all but solidified your partnership in a six-hour settlement conference. You deserve a grand celebration,” he said, with a smile spreading slowly across his wide face.

Davis Sumpter was already a partner at The Arrington Law Group, one of San Francisco’s largest law firms. He wasn’t a very tall man by her standards, considering her own height. He was maybe six feet tops, with a medium build, his love of fashion apparent in the custom-fit designer suit and Italian leather tie-ups he’d worn to the party. And on a good day, Marena would even go as far as to say that he was an attractive man with his strong jaw, almond skin tone, and dark, exotic-looking brown eyes. Of course every female at the firm would swear Marena was blind or too overworked to see straight if she didn’t admit to Davis’s good looks, because they all loved Davis Sumpter. They all wanted to sleep with him, hoped he would marry them, and all that fantasyland crap that tended to take place in a firm with over one hundred attorneys and two hundred and fifty staff, and that was just in the San Francisco office.

Still, to Marena, he was just a man. A man she had no intention of celebrating with tonight, or any other night for that matter.

“I’ve done as much celebrating as I plan to, Davis,” she told him. “I have twenty other cases on my desk waiting for my return on Monday morning.”

“Just twenty?” he asked with a coy smile as he moved closer.

They were in the sitting area of her suite. She hadn’t known, but

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